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Archives for October, 2007

links for 2007-10-31

October 31, 2007

Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex
pro-am revolution is changing Manga!
(tags: manga japan culture comics art media wired economics)

Tribbit.com: Tribute a person, event, or something you love.
while it looks trivial, there is something to the idea of “collaborative greeting cards”. hey, why can’t we have collaborative political cartoons that way?
(tags: community web2.0 social online card [...]

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links for 2007-10-27

October 27, 2007

ARO’s City of the Future – a photoset on Flickr
the winning design prototype for New York in 2106 in a competition organized by the History Channel…”What skyscrapers were to New York City in the twentieth century, vanes are in the twenty-second”. very cool
(tags: architecture cities competition city flickr design future nyc)

The Sound, Not of Music, [...]

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links for 2007-10-26

October 26, 2007

Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs: WP on a new generation of spyware
..No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones…But some federally funded teams are growing live insects with computer chips in them, with the goal of mounting spyware on their bodies..
(tags: surveillance robotics military security article government history homeland insects [...]

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links for 2007-10-25

October 25, 2007

Carbon Hero
GPS-based carbon lifestyle tracking system

(tags: gps carbon mobile sustainability novel visualization)

SSRN-Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency by Jerry Brito
interesting new paper on making government data more transparent with the help of crowdsourcing and mash-ups
(tags: transparency accountability corruption websites XML RSS mashups crowdsourcing)

Have Fun • Do Good: Four Steps to Ease You Into Social [...]

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links for 2007-10-24

October 24, 2007

U.S. Senator Larry Craig Paper Bag Mask
Make your very own U.S. Senator Larry Craig Paper Bag Mask this Halloween, and scare the bejeebus out of all those you encounter in the men’s room
(tags: funny humor parody halloween mask senator)

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links for 2007-10-23

October 23, 2007

YouTube – Information R/evolution
This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information.a new video by Mike Wesch
(tags: video information wesch anthropology)

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links for 2007-10-22

October 22, 2007

Journalism.co.uk :: BBC launches Indian citizen journalism project
The BBC has launched an online citizen journalism initiative to target an audience of Urdu speakers in India.

(tags: citizenjournalism bbc journalism onlinejournalism india ugc socialmedia)

The New Atlantis – Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism – Christine Rosen
The hypertext link called “friendship” on social networking sites is very different: [...]

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Steven Pinker talks about indirect speech at Pop!Tech 2007

Steven Pinker, who is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, spoke to jam-packed audience on the first day of Pop!Tech. Pinker, known as one of the world’s top researchers on language and the brain, manages to translate his findings in accessible language that is understood by both mainstream media and non-academic audience. [...]

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Nina Jablonski talks about the meaning of human skin at Pop!Tech 2007

Dr. Nina Jablonski, primatologist, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist, is professor and head of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. Jablonski kicked off Day3 of Pop!Tech conference with a talk on the meaning of human skin, a subject that she addressed in great detail in her book “Skin: A Natural History”, offering the first comprehensive theory [...]

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Dan Gilbert talks about threats and risks at Pop!Tech 2007

October 20, 2007

Dan Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and the author of the best-selling “Stumbling on Happiness”, kicked off the second day of presentations at Pop!Tech with an entertaining talk about why humans carefully heed some risks and almost completely disregard others. Using global warming as an example of a threat that fails to [...]

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